We Grew These In A Bucket || Small Scale Food Production

Sweetpotato harvest 2021 is here! Each year is a fun dig for buried treasure to see what we actually got. This year we experimented growing sweet potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket.
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[@auntielaura5]

Meg - I really love your editing on this (as always). Having the conversation play while you sped up the video was way cool. Best of both worlds. 😁❤️

[@TheHollarHomestead]

Thank you! 🥰

[@liltbennet]

Yes, the excitement from the boys was everything! I was rooting them on in their digging. 🤣

[@gailwatkins-o9b]

I LOVE how enthusiastic your children are. It's a testament to how well they are raised. Job done mom & dad!! Blessings always, g.

[@shaunwhite2514]

My grandkids coming down 2 North Carolina digging up my sweet potatoes is a bucket-list memory. And one I'm sure they'll never forget

[@tammymorgan9309]

Love the sound effects of the boys digging and finding treasures! Love from SC!

[@sylviabradley7355]

A few years ago I moved to new construction in a new suburb and grew sweet potatoes for the first time in my front yard. They grew under the landscaped beds and I had a great haul. I know why you all were so excited💥

[@sonyagregory5711]

Oh My Sweet Potato Pie! Those are beauties!😊🥧

[@susanr791]

I just noticed the line of lighting over the kitchen area - and then I remembered how it all looked in the beginning and I marveled. - it was you two and it really looks great! Anyway, I digress! Good morning beautiful people!

[@debinbc]

Fantastic haul 👏👏👏😍👍

[@hardwareshomestead8959]

Did you have any drainage holes in the buckets?

[@marcialittle7893]

You gotta try an 18 gallon blue tub from Lowe's. My biggest tater this year was 7.0 pounds! 98.2 pounds total this year, from 7 tubs.

[@jiggyfun807]

Wow!!! That's awesome!!!

[@alliemackenzie1575]

Dang, that's amazing!

[@mimiohnine]

Nice job!! It’s so much fun to harvest the sweet potatoes!! First time we grew them and I’m anxious to eat one! Just a few more days of keeping them warm…then I’m eating one!!

[@shadegarden7375]

So how do we do this? Plant them about mid way and add soil later?

[@kiprussell6102]

Cool harvest guys I just love how the boys are so into helping out and excited to see what they helped raise. I hope you and Meg realize the best crop you got going is the future homesteaders you are raising. Just stop and think how far ahead of the curve they will be from where you had to be do unhappy with life to start. They already know and feel the connection to earth food and life that God gives. Great job that's why I enjoy watching you guys. Keep up the good work and God bless you all

[@Lucky_5090]

Buggy is so stinkin cute with her little voice and talking to you guys 💖

[@anwenroberts975]

Love the haul of sweet potatoes you got. And Buggie has become so vocal LOL She's adorable

[@yellowdeer7163]

That was a very nice crop Ben and boys. That is fun growing your own, so rewarding for sure.

[@denisewilson8367]

Brett & Munchies excitement & giddiness made it more exciting for me as they tunneled thru the dirt. Sweet potatoes are my favorite potato. I like the French fries & the baked the best. But can up all the little ones for boiled type. Congratulations on a bigger haul than last year. And I hope next year it doubles.

[@stokely418]

It was fun watching you all digging up the sweet potatoes! Your little girl is growing so fast. It sounds like she was saying Dada. So cute!

[@gaylewatkins4685]

A successful day of harvesting food raised on your homestead. It's awesome how your boys enjoy working with their dad. Ben and Meg are shining examples of homesteaders working toward the freedom of self sufficiency while raising a beautiful family. God Bless.

[@patriciahusk3428]

Love all the sweet potatoes💜!! Buggy is growing up so quickly….so adorable! Your videos are getting better and better🤗. I love to see the boys so excited to dig up the potatoes😉!

[@catracampolieto8989]

I'd be happy with a sweet potato harvest like yours. AWESOME.

[@cheriekreusel9453]

I wonder if the pigs think of the wheelbarrow as we think of the UPS truck? Here comes Ben with a delightful delivery! Smiles. peace y'all ♡

[@domesti-city]

Uber eats for piggies!

[@cheriekreusel9453]

@@domesti-city ha ha!

[@nahnisjourney1406]

Love your comment!!! I love seeing that big brown truck!!! Take care!

[@drekfletch]

They hear the wheelbarrow and start singing ♫ O-oh the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street. ♫

[@user-justbeingme]

Buggy was doing all she could to see what you were talking about, looking around and over you wanting to see what her brothers were so excited about, she just wants to be a part of the action.

[@ladonnawoodley5279]

Ya'll make me smile every time I see your post. Your baby is growing up so fast. She's something else! God is so good. We start with so little and He multiplies every time; we can't out give God.

[@MKCarol-ms7lg]

Seems to me like God understood the nature of treasure hunting men when He made potatoes and with their ability to entertain. God is good in every way.

[@elizabethbrooks3790]

Love sweet taters so many different way to cook. Buggy had fun. She is putting together words almost can clearly hear what she's saying. Glad you had a good crop. I agree plant more. Cya next one

[@brentolsenthanksformaking2528]

Hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving

[@BiterAvid]

Nice sweet potato harvest. And Buggy is doing really excellent mood enhancing toddler gibberish and very emphatic about it too. Love yall and the off-spring. Have it good all week.

[@MorePranaGardens]

I love baking them like a "normal" potato and roasting garlic alongside. When it's just about ready I cut it open, shove some butter and a few toes of roasted garlic inside. Then I wrap it up and pop it back in. So good!

[@minawhitford3135]

Your Baby Girl is getting Big and chatty so cute.!!!!

[@loritanner4478]

Wow! A video from the future! Cool. I'm pretty sure I'm watching this on Tuesday the 9th. And your opening said November 11? I just checked to see if my DeLorean was still parked out in front of my house.

[@kellygreen8255]

Digging for buried treasure while the geese fly over! Doesn’t get much better than that!

[@sandyoklahomatransient8557]

I failed to plant my slips. They're still sitting on my window sill in the kitchen. I believe I'm going to keep taking care of them there until spring, then I'll plant them. I'm thinking instead of planting the slips in an actual bed. I'll make a long soil hill down the side of the fence, and plant the slips there, and see what happens. Nice sweet potato harvest!!! We love sweet potatoes as well.

[@GreenWitchHomestead]

I just pulled my surprise sweet potatoes today before coming in to catch up on my Subs. Also I can not Express how much joy it brings me to see your kids barefoot in the garden :) Y'all are doing it right!

[@OMGitsaClaire]

Sweet potatoes love bad soil. They love clay soil and hard soil. They thrive on awful soil and neglect! They hate nitrogen-rich soil; it makes them grow all leaves and no tubers. But they can help loosen up and break up compacted soil, so they’re good for those kinds of spots in your garden, especially new ground.

[@jeffporterfield4401]

That is also what I was told growing up, field peas and sweet potatoes love poor land. That is where we always plant them with very little fertilizer and they always did well.

[@annahimes830]

Well I am growing sweet potatoes in buckets on my back deck next year

[@ThePurposefulPantry]

You guys can eat the hreens, too - dehydrate them for powder! Even with the thicker things - the powder later is great. But bacon is too, :D

[@TheHollarHomestead]

Ooooh that’s a great idea!!

[@IkonicLionProductions]

What a Great and beautiful bounty harvest. Congrats to you all. Well done.

[@sweetpea9433]

Amazing job I love 💕 your videos thanks for sharing

[@robertbuckley9303]

It's really interesting that the compost end of the sweet potato bed produced more impressive foliage but smaller, paler, softer 'taters. I wonder if it's the case that stressing a plant just a little often leads to less foliage but more abundant fruiting -- as though the plant is thinking, "This might be a lean year; better set more fruit (or tubers or slips) so we can try again next year."

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Sweet! Love the ladybug language:)))

[@mcintyrefarm634]

So re-refreshing to see your family thriving in a wholesome environment! You all should be proud.

[@leslieabell1320]

Great enthusiastic and happy kids. Love you channel.

[@laurenmmendoza3215]

That spunky little girl certainly has a mind of her own! She cracks me up!

[@gracewashburn8276]

My goodness she’s She is all over the place she is a little beauty I love them sweet potatoes in a bucket those look awesome

[@juanesebuitrago4040]

Way cool! I enjoy how the whole family gets involved in the farm. It makes everyone appreciate their food that much more. Buggy is so cute!

[@flyingpigpreserve8562]

Great Harvest. I also Love Sweet Potatoes. Buggy just loves the outdoors lol. Great to see boys so into digging Sweet Potatoes also. Love your Channel and Family. Want an Apron like Meg's. God Bless and Peace from WV

[@btagg2024]

Sweet potato harvest time is my piggies favorite time of the year. They stand on the other side of the fence waiting for us to throw the vines over.

[@mattsara2802]

That is cool. We haven’t picked our sweet potatoes yet here in Minnesota.

[@belieftransformation]

Thanks for sharing & I loved hearing from all the children🤗❤️🇨🇦

[@heidiweinert3260]

I got more than 2x the harvest in my one packing tote with no pest pressure than my 3x15 bed.

[@richardsmith6317]

have you thought about growing sweet tatters in a stack of old tires ? I tried it and got a bushel from one stack of five tires . You can cut the inner half of the sidewalls and turn them inside out so they will stand taller . fill the first tire with dirt or compost and plant your slips , when they have grown tall enough to peek above the next tire , fill it with more dirt . Continue until your stack is four or five feet tall . The vines will cover the tires and look like a bush . At harvest time just knock the tires over , no digging .

[@gobigandgohomeschool4882]

As a child, I used to grow regular potatoes in tires but I hadn't thought to try it with sweet potatoes!

[@alliswell6002]

I like you finally allowing your children to discover, lucrative or not!

[@alisonshanahan9529]

Enjoyed watching your harvesting, the boys are so enthusiastic. It sounded like Buggy was calling Daisy when she took off for the cows.

[@stephaniejohnson3739]

So cute watching the kids help and get excited about the harvest!

[@826313sherry]

did the buckets you planted the sweet potato slips in have holes in the bottom for drainage? Awesome harvest. God Bless.

[@bryonyhellis]

That was so much fun to watch!

[@deannewilliams3321]

Fun! I just love me some Baby Sister! Does she have yall wrapped around her little finger yet? 💞 I’ve never grown sweet potatoes, it was very interesting to see what grew best and where. I totally expected the original slip producer to have a bunch. Thanks for sharing!

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi...... Meg and Ben nice to see you, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken Duck farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐖🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@loygreen]

Wow the children are so wonderfully involved and loving this . This was lovely to see .It was a blessing to see your family working together today.

[@sassyannie6292]

Seeing your baby reminds me of The Croods, "Release the Baby"! Lol Your kids are so cool. They are going to be farm kids. Awesome ! Great haul on the potatoes!

[@markmorris3579]

You guys struck gold! I can't believe it's warm enough there so kids can be barefoot.

[@LizNicholsArt]

When I was a toddler, I would escape to the cow pasture (fenced with barbed wire, I learned early). My Mom finally had to get my Dad to build a 7 ft. fence around the yard, with a locked gate.

[@markmorris3579]

Liz Nichols-I did the same thing at my grandparents dairy farm when I was 3.I learned the hard way about electric fences,especially when the ground is wet!

[@megrandmomjean5019]

When I had a garden we had a problem with rats. I called Michigan State University's Master Gardener Program and asked if it was safe to eat veggies if a rat TOUCHED them. They transferred me to their Food Safety Dept and I was told "NO". I said, I'm not talking about a bite on the veggie, I'm just talking about TOUCHING them. I again was told "NO". I said there's no way for me to tell if a rat may have touched them - are you telling me I have to turn over my whole garden and I was told "Unfortunately, YES". I cried as I filled two large garbage cans and have not planted veggies since. I sure do miss those fresh veggies. I'm writing this because you said something about mice and I'm worried about your safety in eating that crop.

[@jdgibs3446]

Great Happy Hollar harvest, Hallelujah! Coming to ya from the Hollar Homestead.🥧☕ Blessings Hollar family. ☝️🙏🙌✝️🇺🇸🎯👍🤠

[@margaretramsingh4865]

Awww Buggie can say sweet potato!!!

[@Userxyz-z2d]

The happy family 🌟. ❤️ Halfway thru the growing season, cut back the vines. It allows the energy to be put into the potatoes (to grow). Also, those vines are extremely nutritious for people as well as livestock &chickens. Sautéed in butter, garlic, salt & added to omelets- YUM. Somewhat like spinach. Great vid 👍👍❤️ (sorry, already wrote my comment prior to watching your whole vid).

[@torchwoody58]

Pam says- pigs love sweet potatoes... just saying. Anyway, that cow line must be powerful, it buzzed on camera when you were walking by it. The sweet potato slip maker will not make a new sweet potato unless the slips are separated or the vines start new roots; it will just keep itself alive and maybe grow bigger.

[@judith98630]

So nice seeing the boys enjoying the great harvest!

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[@southernladywithmanyhats7428]

Put some olive oil into a shallow baking pan and cut the tators in rings about an inch thick. Don't peel them. Bake until bottoms of the circles are brown on the bottom. You wont ever want another whole baked one. It's like eating a dessert and they are sooooo good. It brings out the taste of them. OH I forgot, sprinkle with some salt before baking.

[@kneelathisthrone9191]

Spent our childhood churning butter when we left home my mom thought I'll try in the blender and within seconds she had butter Little less volume but with endless cream the time saved is amazing!!!

[@lorrainewilliams8232]

It's fantastic to see how excited you get by sweet potato's, I get the same buzz when I'm in the garden digging, love it 😀👍

[@pattyprice2644]

Nice harvest now those boys love there taters glad to see that next year Brett will his own bed

[@pennycricket2294]

I need to try this. I have limited space. Buggy is definitely a voting member of the family with her enthusiasm

[@johnthomas5806]

get them boys busy cutting the tops back on those plants, makes it easier to dig the root crops up.......

[@glimmermomma4373]

Omg nothing like sweet taters!!! I can eat them 365 days a year!!!

[@dianewhite8950]

How exciting! Next year will be here soon for a new crop, God bless

[@markflood6491]

i like that you let your boys be boys bare foot digging in the garden good life skills full marks to you and your wife

[@estyria5961]

I love watching people dig potatoes. Takes me back in time to my grandfather's garden and "diggin' taters" with my cousins. My grandfather is a large reason why I want to garden and keep chickens, etc. He instilled that mentality into us grandkids.

[@amysgardenstead2879]

I swear Buggy was yelling “give me that “ to the original sweet potato! Digging any potatoes is like digging for treasure.

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

Digging for potatoes is like searching for a hidden treasure! One of my favorite things to harvest! ❤️

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Great harvest! Love seeing what yall have going on.

[@kristenhasleftthebuilding1380]

Love sweet potatoes 🧡🧡🧡 Buggi is growing like a weed🌱 Love you guys keep keeping on👨‍🌾👩‍🌾🚜

[@minnamae25]

Absolutely LOVE sweet potatoes. I boil mine, slap some butter on it, drizzle honey over it, pinch of salt...yum yum. Always prefer sweet potatoes over any other potatoe.

[@dianenugent3666]

Just curious. Why Isn't the shape of the potatoes like at the stores?

[@lisamadison2671]

My sweet potatoes just crapped out this year. Congrats on your harvest.

[@SpottyCreekFarm]

We did sweet potatoes in 4 straw balea the first year and got 30 some pounds. Last year we planted in goat poop and got a ton. Did y'all ever plant the asparagus seeds we sent?

[@BlueGrassBound.]

Harvesting is so fun! It's great seeing the children so excited! 💙

[@JLBellwriter]

Fine filmmaking at 10:10, using a lovely insert shot to show the passage of time.

[@chantaln6843]

What about the forest pig, don’t they get sweet potato 🍠 treats?

[@mgtmoffat8411]

Good haul. I am growing my first ever sweet potatoes this year. Just planted the slips, we should be frost free for the summer. Great to see the excitement. You have done so much work! Your homestead is a credit to you all. 💕💕🌻🌻

[@4BWVan]

Digging potatoes is one of the most fun, satisfying garden activities. So glad we got to share this special time with all of you!

[@NightfallHomestead]

We had about 40 pounds of sweet potatoes this year (first year growing them!) We bought our slips last year but we have plenty of those skinny stragglers I also kept.. i have them in the potato drawer (dark cool and dry) suggestions for getting slips out of them come next spring?

[@ouachitamountainliving]

I believe Sweet taters are on my garden menu for next year. Lil brown sugar and cinnamon with melted butter!!!! And a fat steak, well in the old days,cannot afford steak now days!

[@megmills1697]

My one dog came running when you filmed geese😄

[@islandgardener158]

We have had sweet spuds in wooden raised beds for years, and I noticed that they seem to like getting close to the wood.

[@cherylbertolini3140]

now its time to cure the potatoes, hopefully that sweet potato grows back next year so you can pick the slips.

[@jenedge5579]

Omg this is the most lovely family ever. Baby on the back and kids harvesting. Love this!♥️

[@egsuperduty]

I would love to see the other side dug up too please.

[@katbelearning]

I love to see and hear buggy doing her best effort to take part in the gardening chores. Absolutely adorable! :o). I loved to see your sweet potato harvest, that was awesome. I truly enjoy your son’s involvement, it’s great and they’re such good young men and big brothers!

[@offgridwanabe]

The baby is gorgeous.

[@slgoad]

I enjoyed watching the boys so enthused about digging the sweet potatoes. I think the could have finished them up for you dad. Buggy is talking up a storm. What a dollbaby!